On Dec 16, 5:41 pm, pdlem...@earthlink.net wrote: > I've been given a MAC AIR laptop with OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard". > On my desktop I dual boot with XP - Ubuntu and have Python on both. > Unfortunately all my Python programs are written on Windows XP and > I heavily rely on WConio for console I/O. > Called Apple tech support. The technician had never heard of Python, > ascertained the MAC AIR does not come preloaded with Python and > did not know if Python 3 would run under OS X 10.6. This was "beyond" > their expertise.
Unless the MacBook Air has some sort of cut-down version of Snow Leopard (which I doubt), it'll have Python 2.5.4 and Python 2.6.1 pre-installed. You'd have to install Python 3.1 yourself if you want it, but it runs just fine on OS X 10.6 (and earlier). There may be some problems with the Python 3.1.1 version from the official download page, though, since Python 3.1.1 was released *before* Snow Leopard was. An easy way to get a working Python 3.1.1 on OS X 10.6 is to install MacPorts and then do a 'sudo port install python31'. I don't know anything about WConio. -- Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list